Mr. McAnnich is endowed with great natural musical talent, which has been cultivated, and while in the army he served for a time as chief bugler. He was the leader of the Great Eastern Band of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, for five years, and has been at various times associated with bands and musicians of national reputation. He married, January 5, 1865, Catherine Bracken, daughter of George Bracken. They have no children of their own, but their large hearts found room for six orphans, whom they adopted in the course of time. The first to be taken into their hearts and home were Michael, Frank and Ellsworth Lawlor, whom they reared to a useful manhood, Frank taking the name of his foster parents. They then adopted, at various times, Katie Forsyth, Margaret Craig, and Adeline Gower, the father of the latter having been killed by tramps. Mr. McAnnich joined April 4, 1902, and is now serving his second term as commander of Post No. 155, Grand Army of the Republic.

... a born caterer; his experience dates back into the early fifties, his birth-place the famous old stone tavern situated at the south end of the Smithfield street bridge, Pittsburgh. In every city there are men whose sterling traits win for them the respect of the whole community. Mr. McAnnich is public-spirited and foremost in the advancement of any project which has the interests of the Smoky City at heart, and he well deserves the position he holds as general superintendent of the Columbus Club, Pittsburgh.”

From book, A Century and a Half of Pittsburgh and Her People, Genealogical Memoirs of the Leading Families of Pittsburgh and Vicinity, by John Newton Boucher, Editor In Chief, compiled under the editorial supervision of John W. Jordan of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Volume III, pub. 1908, The Lewis Publishing Company [Pittsburgh?], page 412; found at Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh.

McAninch Family History NL, V-4  November, 1997  Copyright Frank McAninch   page 1997-38

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